Editor’s note: this is another brilliant post by Nye Farley What key is the tune in? The first thing you need to know when you’re trying to find the right chords for a tune is its key. Celtic music is written in one of four “modes”. The modes are a set of seven scales...
Note: this is a guest post by Nye Farley If you are just starting out playing Celtic music on the guitar it can be difficult to pick up the rhythms. Folk guitarists often seem to have a kind of innate grasp of which patterns fit with which tunes. Many musicians grow...
You can learn how to play Irish and Scottish jigs on acoustic guitar very quickly, but you can also spend a lifetime perfecting this style; read on… How to play Irish jigs on guitar Many jigs can be played very simply. You strum for every beat and change chords...
My first exposure to Drop D tuning was from the guitar playing of Stephen Stills. It floored me with the amazing full sound and I wondered how I could ever learn how to play guitar like that. All I knew was that you simply tune the low E string to a D and that was it....
Many aspiring guitarists want to learn how to play lead guitar only to discover that it looks much easier than it actually is. You can’t blame them though, just watch somebody who makes it look almost effortless, as if they always knew how to play guitar like...
It is not that hard to learn guitar chords. Did you know that there are essentially only 5 basic major chord formations? Really, there are only 5 basic shapes? You don’t need to know any guitar music theory, well maybe a little, to get started. Once you learn...
Playing better guitar is what the Master Guitar Guide is all about. There are so many areas to work on that it can seem a little overwhelming at times. Slow down, take some deep breaths and smile a bit! It actually helps. Then there is the matter of the little finger...
Jamming on guitar is one of the central parts of the Master Guitar Guide; in fact, if you don’t play well with others I really don’t know why you would even play guitar! I suppose you could sit in your room and play up a storm, but it would be a pretty empty and sad...
If you want to learn to play guitar well and get there quickly, you need some guitar accessories. I’m not talking about all kinds of gear that makes you look like a dorky kid on the basketball court all decked out like Michael Jordan, but unable to play ball! However,...
If you had enough time and energy you could figure out everything you need to know in order to play guitar really well. Many players, old blues masters, for example did exactly that; they learned a little bit of “how things work” and experimented around the...
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